Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill

Bill No. 7/1991

Read the first time on 26th February 1991.

An Act to amend the Road Traffic Act (Chapter 276 of the 1985 Revised Edition).

Be it enacted by the President with the advice and consent of the Parliament of Singapore, as follows:

Short title and commencement

1. This Act may be cited as the Road Traffic (Amendment) Act 1991 and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint.

Amendment of section 10A

2. Section 10A(4) of the Road Traffic Act (referred to in this Act as the principal Act) is amended by inserting, immediately after paragraph (e), the following paragraph:

“(ea)

provide for a rebate on all or any part of the levy payable for the issue of a permit under this section, in such circumstances as may be permitted by the rules;”.

Amendment of section 11

3. Section 11 of the principal Act is amended by inserting, immediately after subsection (4), the following subsection:

“(4A) The Minister may prescribe a rebate on all or any part of the tax payable for vehicles of a specified class, category or description and the Minister may prescribe different rates of rebate or the methods for determining the amount of the rebate for vehicles of different classes, categories or descriptions or vehicles used for different purposes.”.

New section 11A

4. The principal Act is amended by inserting, immediately after section 11, the following section:

“Restricted licences and supplementary licences

11A.—(1) The Registrar may, upon application by the owner of a motor car in such circumstances as may be prescribed, issue a licence subject to the restriction that the motor car shall not be driven on any roads or on specified roads during specified days or times unless there is in force a supplementary licence for that motor car.

(2) The Minister may make rules for carrying out or giving effect to this section and, in particular, may —

(a)	provide for the issue of supplementary licences, whether at prescribed fees or without charge, and regulate their use and exhibition; and
(b)	provide for all matters necessary or incidental to allow subsection (1) to apply or cease to apply to motor cars of any description, including the re-registration of such cars and the imposition of any fee or levy in connection with such re-registration.

(3) Any person who drives a motor car, issued with a licence subject to the restriction referred to in subsection (1), in contravention of such a restriction or any owner of such a motor car who causes or permits his car to be so driven shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction be punished with a fine of not less than half the amount of the road tax payable for 12 months in respect of that motor car if it were not subject to the restriction referred to in subsection (1) and, in the case of a second or subsequent conviction, with a fine of not less than the amount of the road tax payable for 12 months in respect of that motor car if it were not subject to the restriction referred to in subsection (1).

(4) Any person who falsifies an identification mark or plate prescribed in the case of a motor car issued with a licence subject to the restriction referred to in subsection (1) or who displays, or causes or permits to be displayed, a falsified identification mark or plate on such a motor car shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction be punished with a fine of not less than twice the amount of the fee payable for a licence for 12 months in respect of that motor car if it were not subject to the restriction referred to in subsection (1).”.

Amendment of section 32

5. Section 32 of the principal Act is amended by inserting, immediately after the word “section” in the fifth line, the words “11A(3), 11A(4) or”.

Amendment of section 33

6. Section 33(2) of the principal Act is amended by deleting the words “but nothing in this Part shall be construed as requiring any taxes or fees to be payable under this Part in respect of such vehicles”.

Amendment of section 34

7. Section 34 of the principal Act is amended by deleting paragraph (c) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(c)

to prescribe the size, shape and character of the identification marks or the signs to be fixed on any vehicle and the manner in which those marks or signs are to be secured, sealed, displayed and rendered easily distinguishable whether by night or by day and to prohibit those marks, signs and seals from being tampered with,”.

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